I feel like an assumption I come up against a lot with liberals is that the USSR had basically the same ownership class structure and wealth distribution that similarly developed capitalist classes had. I tried Binging this but don't have a good sense of what authors to trust.
Reminds me of how liberals and western leftists were upset when a Vietnamese diplomat went to visit Marx’s grave and then dined at a fancy restaurant, paid for by the French host accompanying him
communism = no food. if a communist eats they are hypocritical corrupt party apparatchik :theory-gary:
personally as the one true leftist i was outraged that the vietnamese government funded a trip to Paris for a functionary whatsoever. what if they enjoyed themselves? this would be the end of communism.